Getting Outdoors Improves Cognition With only a month left in the semester, both students and faculty may be feeling torn: There’s pressure to stay hyper-focused on work and meet deadlines, but the beautiful spring weather beckons and may be fleeting. Fortunately, these impulses aren’t mutually exclusive. Learning may actually be advanced by taking time to […]

Making the Most of the Rest of the Semester We’re always amazed by how quickly the weeks pass after spring break. One moment we’re getting back into the swing of things, and the next, it’s already time for finals, goodbyes, graduations, and summer. Before the semester gets away from us, this is a good moment […]

Spring Break Refresh Happy spring break! Whether you’re traveling, staying put, catching up on projects, or claiming your well-deserved rest, we hope the time will be restorative. After a break in routine, it can be hard to regain momentum, so we have a few suggestions for helping students regain their focus when classes resume. First, […]

Describing the Qualities of Successful Work Communicating our expectations to students is a challenging part of teaching. We’re often trying to help people who may be totally unfamiliar with the types of work we assign to understand what it means to do that work well. As an analogy, this task is like describing the qualities […]